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    THE LEADER.

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    " 1 ixr n,,ivD : ~^Tal I 1TPRATURE— INDI...

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    w %tnitm nf tjje Wuk.

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    rpHE events of the week are many and, fo...

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    The Leader.

    THE LEADER .

    Contents:.

    Contents :

    " 1 Ixr N,,Ivd : ~^Tal I 1tprature— Indi...

    " 1 ixr n ,, ivD : ~^ Tal I 1 TPRATURE— INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESSSEVIEWOFTHEWEEK- ' »» Morico ¦ 111 ! ¦ ' Tr ™ Tr of the Rev H S Pole- The English Language in India . 1200 Home Intelligence . BoliliS ' 1158 ' M ? 2 £ « -nn 1180 Kotes on Indian Progress 1200 The Education Movement gg ^ f ; = " \ = 7 :: ; := Z ll & I v ^ Z ^^^ .:- — .: " lilt Great Indian Peninsula Rail-England and Japan ... ...... 11 S 0 p |^ _ lisg , Tents and Tent Life 1187 way , l | 01 Gatherings from Law and Police Brazil _ nS 5 aSnof Duncairn 1187 I ^* - ™\ t , ^ 1188 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- British Columbia and \ ancou- tluna — - w-TV ^ valand " Miiiterv 1183 Ministerial Movements towards ! ver ' s Island .................. 1187 MERCANTILE AND COMMERCIALAcedents andSudden Deaths 1183 Reform 1193 My Escape from the Mutinies „ Employment for Surplus Capital 1202 lWicalForeshadowings 1193 Manchester Wares 1193 i in-Oftdti . „ . 1183 General Trade Report . 1202 FccSstical Items 7 ...... 1198 Mr . Gladstone ' s Mission to the | The New El © jrado 1188 Home . Colonial , and Foreign Reform Conference 1199 Ionian Islands 1191 , Magazines ...... 1 . Produce Markets 1203 MisceHaueous " . . / 1185 Japan .... 11 M Books Received this Week 1190 Railway Intelligence 1204 Foreign Intblligevcb Who Shall Rule the Roast ? 1195 ' arts- Joint-Stock Companies ............ 1201 jj orbigbt ± ntbllige > CB . Inability of Directors ..: 119 G . THE ARTS- Money Market and Stock Ex-SmS ? . ^!! .. " ::::::::::::::::::: ^ orjcnal correspondence- < ^^ . ^^ E ^ tam- ngo ^^ XS ^^ :=:::::: ^ . ffiSftAmerica" :::::::::::::::::::::::: Wit G ^ X ^ v : r ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: l ^ . postscript .: . _ i : i : j ^__^^^ y s ^^ na ^^^^ o 6

    W %Tnitm Nf Tjje Wuk.

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    Rphe Events Of The Week Are Many And, Fo...

    rpHE events of the week are many and , for the X most part , of muck interest . The opening of Japan—of which we have within the last few days received detailed accounts—is an achievement in every way remarkable , and alone would have served to make the week ' s record , memorable . We have given in another place something of au account of the extraordinary people with . whom after so many vain endeavours we are at length permitted to hold intercourse . IiStters written under the excitement of recent impression have been sent to England

    stating that " never was there a people more ready to adapt themselves to the changes and progress of the world than they are . " About that opinion we h ' ave our doubts ; and at all events it is too early in the day to pronounce so decidedly . It is enough , at present , to be sure of the great fact that the ancient cxclusiveness of this extraordinary niiLion lias been broken down , and to hope that while we reap the solid advantages of au extended commerce , the Japanese may not have cause to regret the introduction of European influences and European standards of civilisation and morals .

    Europe , in fact , is not in a condition at the present moment to dictate such standards , even to countries the social and political systems of which contain as much of barbarism as those of Japan . TVc of England arc not beloved wherever it pleases us to set up our standards . It is becauso we aro so little loved in those Ionian Islands , whore we have been trying to forco oiu- political system upon a race alien to us , in religion , language , or national habits , that we aro sending Mr . Gladstone out as Lord High Commissioner , in the faint

    hope that lie will find moans of pacifying and reconciling the Ionian republicans to the British power . We have given them froo representative institutions , but wo would forbid them to use them in the way dictated by tlioir political \ vnut 3 and wishes , which all tend towards the incorporation of the islands in the kingdom of Greece . It would bo to deliver thorn over to the powor of Austria , wo say ; we do not adinjfc that it would bo to saoriftoo au important strategic position in the Mediterranean .

    Nor could wo offer as a pattern of high civilisation tho prosoni ; state of our " religions world , " where tho word of poaoo is made a no vor-ceasing battlo-ory of rival Churolios and rival creeds ; ono Churoh building up four foot walls bofcwoon its dead and tho mortal remains of disScntera from tho letter of its ordiuauoos j tlio other ravishing little helpless ohildron from thoir parents' kooping , because it holds that out of its pulo there-is no hopo of salvation , and makes murder oven a meritorious aol whon oommiltocl for tho purpose of bringing a fio u I to paradise .

    In Ireland there is a state of things—certainly passing away , but active still—which could by no means be pointed to as the admirable fruit of European civilisation . It . is very nearly certain that in Japan such an atrocity as the attempt to murder the Revel-end Mr . ' Nixon would never have been thought of ; very certain is it that no writer in Japan would have been found to comment upon the perpetration of such a deed in the spirit of the

    writer in the Nation of last Sunday , who rapturously described , how the landlord ' s " teeth had been drawn . " Nor is it probable that in any Japanese temple a priest could be found who , in his zeal for the ao-grandisement of his Church , would so utterly belie its history , so impudently : perver t notorious facts , and claim respect for a temporal power which has been a burden on Europe for half a dozen centuries , as Cardinal Wiseman has

    been doing within the week . . Europe , indeed , has little that it can offer with confidence to Japan in the way of- example . The conduct of strong Governments towards weak ones , as in the dispute of France with . Portugal , would not suggest very high notions of national honour . Nobody in England was taken in by the announcement of the Moniteur , that the affair of the Charlesct-Georges -had been settled to the satisfaction of Portugal ; we have the real facts of the case now set forth without reserve in the official Lisbon paper ; and . we see that Portugal , maintaining itself to be iu the right , receiving from France no

    conof his private and personal sentiments ! " It is aid that if the Government is so blind to the suggestions of prudence as to bring Count Montalembcrt to trial , the Count will defend himself ! In Prussia , tne constitution is being worked in such a way as to enable the Prince Regent to do what he will with the help of a Ministry of his own . The Manteuffel Cabinet holds - office onlj until their successors are ready to take their places . The Prince of Hohenzollern , who is charged with the duty of forming a new Ministry , is believed to

    have liberal and progressive tendencies : he is a soldier , however , and bound to the throne of Prussia by peculiar ties , having in 1 S 49 " surrendered to it his sovereign rights for the purpose of incorporating the territories of - Hohenzollern Sigmaringen with the kingdom of Prussia . Too much , therefore , must not be expected on the side of popular liberty from his administration . We have also another reason given us from Berlin for not being , over sanguine as to the use which the present Government of Prussia are going to make of the " Constitution . " It has addressed a circular

    to the heads of the police throughout the kingdom , directing them what to do with reference to the coming . elections ; they are to use their influence to direct the electors to return such candidates only as shall be acceptable to the Government , taking care to do their spiriting gently—that is , without actual violence . In the name of tho constitution , of course . At home , with all our short-comings , we certainly do * better with our constitutional powers . Even with regard to abuses in the army—the mosfc

    filiation of the facts , but only threats \ oi hostile measures which it could not hope to resist , gives tip the ship and will pay whatever sum tho French Government chooses to extort . In the mean time the Portuguese are indignant at the part which England hns played in the " settlement" of tins question , leaving their Government to cope with a lawless antagonist , and withholding from it even moral support on a question which is as much English as Portuguese . Our position is an absurdity j wo cannot even protect tho friends who are doing work which wo have forced upon them . It matters little at the present timo whethor tho Emperor have law ovi his side or not ; if he have it not , ho will

    unhopeful of chronic abuses—we arc never wholly without hope of amendment . This week , tho Duke of Cambridge lias cheered us with tho spectacle of a Commaudor-in-Chiof reprimanding a Court-martial for not sustaining tho character of tho army . A young ensign—after being warned against indulgence iu the ungcntlcmanly practico of " praotioal joking "—had tho temerity to go to another ensign ' s

    make it , Iu his own oountry , within a wcok , wo have seen what " law and ordor" are iu his hands . Tho Count do Montalcmbcrt is to be prosecuted for speaking warmly iu pmiso of English institutions- — praise which tho Emperor oonstruos into moaning

    apartment , up sol his furniture , and causo his bed to take flro ; tho Court-martial boforo whom tho chief ; of the charges > voro established lot the young " gentleman" off with a reprimandT Tho Duke of Cambridge has not sot aside the judgment , but ho has called upon future Courts-martial to take hotter care to punish moa brought before thorn for siiniliu : oonduot , which , ho says , is unbecoming tho oharactor of au " officer aud a gentleman . "

    treason to his powor " uudoi' Iho Constitution " of Fra'uop . What is to bo said of tho law or justice of a oountry in which a high legal functionary daros , iu his address nt tho opening of tho law-oourts , to toll tho judges that " abovo all things thoy must romein'bor that thoy roudor ju . st . ioo iu tho name of tho Emperor , nud that thoy must strive to bo tho representatives npt only of his public authority , but also

    In connexion with tho groat bauk-fuiluros wo have had Mr . Hamphroy Brown boforo tho Bankruptoy Court , " looking iu as good Jioaltli and spirits as tho greatest of his udmirors oould dosiro . " Tho assignees offerotl no opposition , and Air . Brown , who will bo riiliovod from tho weight of n . " mountain of prejudice , " m his ooansol s / iid for him , passed whllout u word of comment from tho bonoh .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/3/